Flushing Made Me Blush

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Now Ol' Dutch has been a few places and along the way had the opportunity to see all kinds of places where people do their duty, therefore, it takes a lot to impress me when faced with communal pots.

The other day I was in a retail store and they had the new-fangled low water flush model and it was so deep you could have raised Koi in it. When I flushed it a sign flashed warning all women and small children to clear the area. A vacuuming sound unlike any I have ever heard emanated from the john and the man next to me almost lost his toupee.

But nothing could prepare me for my trip to Kansas and what I found there. In a small north central Kansas town the people there took it upon themselves to not only have a public restroom downtown but to have THE public restroom of all time.

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Willing to do anything -- almost

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It’s that time of year when all the big and small towns across our land celebrate the Christmas miracle. Back in my parents’ hometown in Kansas, the 300 residents have been celebrating for years with the Christmas Madrigal Pageant Extravaganza.

This extravaganza is a community production which strives to revive medieval song and spirit. Folks wear period costumes so that the attendees can have a true cultural experience -- or something like that.

It’s an experience worth having so I planned to visit my parents the weekend it was scheduled. Plus, given that I have had a long year of hunting and fishing across this great land, I  decided that I needed a little R& R. (Trixie laughs when I tell her how tired that makes me and reminds me that it is a self-imposed torture. I do realize that but, after all, somebody has to do it, right?)

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Black Friday Madness

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I recall with shock and awe the first day I arrived in Texas for the Fall Season only to find the Christmas decorations and wrapping paper already on the shelves. This was the first of October, mind you, and Halloween hadn't even made its own scary appearance. 

It used to be people went out and got a few bags of candy for the Trick-or-Treaters and called it good. Nowadays, there are huge yard displays of every type and imagination including giant inflatable haunted houses and spooks.

But the rush past that and onto the Christmas Season seems to be coming earlier each year and I fully expect it to start earlier and earlier until the sales offered today are for the Christmas a year and a half later. 

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